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24 #include <curl/curl.h>
26 /* This is a simple example showing how to verify an email address from an
31 * 1) This example requires libcurl 7.34.0 or above.
32 * 2) Not all email servers support this command and even if your email server
33 * does support it, it may respond with a 252 response code even though the
34 * address doesn't exist.
41 struct curl_slist *recipients = NULL;
43 curl = curl_easy_init();
45 /* This is the URL for your mailserver */
46 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "smtp://mail.example.com");
48 /* Note that the CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT takes a list, not a char array */
49 recipients = curl_slist_append(recipients, "<recipient@example.com>");
50 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT, recipients);
52 /* Perform the VRFY */
53 res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
55 /* Check for errors */
57 fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
58 curl_easy_strerror(res));
60 /* Free the list of recipients */
61 curl_slist_free_all(recipients);
63 /* Curl won't send the QUIT command until you call cleanup, so you should
64 * be able to re-use this connection for additional requests. It may not be
65 * a good idea to keep the connection open for a very long time though
66 * (more than a few minutes may result in the server timing out the
67 * connection) and you do want to clean up in the end.
69 curl_easy_cleanup(curl);